‘The West Side Kid’: A Novel

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Wood-Ridge, NJ, July 6, 2009 — Award-winning author Valentine Cardinale, who dreamt of cowboys on wide open ranges in the Southwest while growing up on the teaming streets of Hell’s Kitchen in New York City, decided to bring both worlds together in his latest novel, “The West Side Kid” (published by iUniverse). Cardinale, who lives in New Jersey now, described his book as “a mystery with heart.” By that, he means there’s a lot of human interest in this story of murder and the search for truth and justice.

Protagonist Lorne Bennett, a movie star who goes by the name “The West Side Kid” to his fans, suddenly becomes a wanted man in the real-life criminal sense. When his thirty-one-year-old wife, Aurora, is murdered in their elegant Manhattan apartment, he comes under suspicion and flees, leaving behind a successful career and his four-month-old daughter, Laura.

Fast forward to twenty-two years later. Bennett is living quietly in Arizona when a freak car accident throws him into the spotlight and he’s forced to take off again. He knows the police are on his tail, but he has no idea he’s also being tracked down by his daughter who hungers to know all she can about that night in the apartment when she was just an infant and lost both her mother and father. It’s her obsession to understand what occurred that puts her own life in danger.

“The West Side Kid” takes the reader on an exciting journey, from Arizona to Las Vegas to New York City, in a relentless search for answers. Cardinale has written another captivating novel that is entertaining and suspenseful. “With all the dire news out there, is there a better time to escape for awhile into a good mystery?” he wonders.

About the Author

Valentine Cardinale is a Columbia Graduate School of Journalism graduate who had a long, successful career in magazine publishing before becoming a full-time fiction writer. “The West Side Kid” is his second novel. His first, “The Terranovas: A War Family,” was published in 2005 and went on to win first prize in the Arizona Authors Association’s 2005 literary contest. Cardinale, a native New Yorker, now lives in northern New Jersey. He is available for interview. To find out more about this author, please visit http://www.vcardinale.com.

“The West Side Kid”

Available from: http://www.iUniverse.com, http://www.bn.com and http://www.amazon.com.

ISBN: 9781440143908 - 6 x 9 - Paperback - 204 pages - $14.95

iUniverse offers a variety of publishing services to help individuals publish, market and sell fiction, poetry and nonfiction books. The company utilizes print-on-demand technology, and is one of the largest self-publishing companies in the U.S. iUniverse is based in Bloomington, Indiana.

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